instead
adverb
uk/ɪnˈsted/us/ɪnˈsted/A2
inplaceof someone or somethingelse:
作为替代There's nocoffee- would you like acupofteainstead?没有咖啡——来杯茶怎么样?
Compare
inlieu(of)formal
alternatively
- I'm going todropyogaand doaerobicsinstead.
- How onearthcould theyknockdown alovelyoldbuildinglike that and put acarparkthere instead?
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargainsomethingaway
- change over
- instead of
- lieu
- make up forsomething
- name
- novate
- rep
- represent
- shoe
- sing
- someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
- spare
- step intosomeone'sshoesidiom
- step into the breachidiom
- sub outsomething
- substitution
- succeed